Wonderful character development!

not as good as all the hype

Boring

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I was entertained. I do not know much about the actors. I was looking forward to it since it gave a mystery movie vibe and yeah I love old fashioned mysteries. There are not many horror elements. And whatever horror elements are there, the impact is less but it works as a old fashioned mystery novel type movie. The setting is impressive. The main girl looks like Megan fox, sort of a turnoff because she looked like somebody who didn't really fit in with the movie. Probably someone less model-like would have fit the role. A girl who has the next door look, for example. And I don't think her acting is anything to rave about anyway. The main guy is OK. But my favourite actor was actually Fred Durst! Who knew LOL! He does the job pretty well. I actually didn't recognize him but I thought "I have seen this guy somewhere", I couldn't place him. One thing I did like about this film is how it ignored one cliché, that of the friend character.Like in certain films, the Fred durst character turns out to be a two face sort of a character where he turns out to be negative because of his experiences. But in this movie he still appears a guy who has not lost his innocence and who still cares about his friend despite everything the main guy did. The main guy was a jerk IMO. But yeah overall the movie has borrowed from many sources and sticks to the predictable script. But I still thought it was a good effort and it delivers when it comes to the suspense part. 7/10

population 436 was a movie that you would see on the shelf at blockbuster and say that it looks terrible but if you give it a chance it is a very well made and enjoyable film.it sucks now that blockbusters gone just for the fact that no one knows about these straight to DVD films anymore and a lot of the time nowadays,they are made better than a big budget picture.i really liked this movie and if your a thriller/horror buff you will enjoy this movie.kind of feels like watching one of those classic horrors from the 70s and 80s,eerie at times and an overall creepy feel.jeremy sisto was excellent as a lead character and hope to see in more leading roles.

I'm very sorry, I tried to give this movie the benefit of the doubt but it didn't hold my interest. I don't care for movies that remain the same throughout the entire movie and never gives you a feeling of satisfaction at the end.The situations that came up were totally unreal and the characters were so dumb that I thought I was watching something written by a bunch of teenagers. It seemed that nothing good ever happened, and there was no redemption at the end. However, if you like movies containing blank stares, boring scenes, and ends as bad as it started, then by all means this is your kind of movie!

Jeremey Sisto is Steve, a census taker sent to a small town to square things away. Confusion ensues when he discovers his assignment is going to be a little more complicated than he first assumed. Suspend reality, because nobody wants to anymore, absent lofty special effects, Jedis, or Hobbits. But this is no low-budget dud. It's Stephen King-Twilight Zone-Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I usually have stinkers figured out by about ten minutes in, but Population 436 is the little, sociological thriller that could; proving suspenseful, entertaining, and a seductive study of human nature, in all its bizarre, quirky transgressions. There is also the requisite Sisto love scene, which, after all, is why we ladies are watching in the first place.